The Favorite: Real Quiet won the Kentucky Derby as a minor long shot and in the Preakness Stakes was the second choice. In both races, he defeated an up-and-coming colt with a big closing kick, Victory Gallop. The Spoiler: Victory Gallop, after a pair of runner-up efforts, was poised to turn the tables on his rival.
Both hedge funds and private equity funds appeal to high net worth individuals (many require minimum investments of $250,000 or more), traditionally are structured as limited partnerships and involve paying the managing partners basic management fees plus a percentage of profits.
These options involved a public listing of either: 1  A private equity firm (the management company), which provides shareholders an opportunity to gain exposure to the management fees and carried interest earned by the investment professionals and managers of the private equity firm.